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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [kernel/ subdirectory] constifications
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On Monday 09 October 2006 08:59, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 21:21 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> > - completely constify string arrays, thus move them to the rodata section
>
> note that gcc 4.1 and later will do this automatically for static things
> at least...

Are you sure ?

At least with gcc-4.1.0 from SUSE 10.1 the strings array _pointers_ are not moved into the rodata section without the second "const":
const static char * const x[] = { "value1", "value2" };

Helge
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